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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29276	The churches resurrection, or, The creating of the new heavens written by an unworthy gospel-minister, John Bryan.	Brayne, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing B4321; ESTC R23804	57,437	84

primam sequentiam ad augustissimam illius subvehamur lucem idem ibid. cap. 2. Rudis ex seipso non statim continenter hanc cupiet vero sensim ac per gradus ad priora semper digniora atque ad excellentiora conscendit sicque perfectus ad supremum illum tandem divinumque ordinem gradu proficiente subvehetur Clem. Alex. Lib. 3. Pedag. Multa per aenigmata multa per parabolas quoque possunt prodesse iis qui in ea incidunt sed non est meum inquit paedagogus hac docere sed magistro ad sancta verba exponenda opus habemus ad quem nobis eundum est jam quidem tempus est mihi cessandi à paedogogia vobis autem audiendi Magistrum cum is autem vos acceperit in bona disciplina eductos edocebit eloquia 1. Hence it is clear one Ministery ended in the other and fitted for the other and none taught the others Doctrine 2. Here Magistrum is put for Pastorem he taught the Doctrine of Milk in his Paedagogus which was the Teachers office is clear Tertul. de Resurrect carniss Num homo interior hic utique renovari habebit per suggestum spiritus proficiens fide disciplina die ac die non illic id est non post resurrectionem ubi non utique die ac die renovare habemus sed semel ad summum 1. He shews the renovation of the inward man spoken of is to be in this life 2. That it is to be day by day 3. It is by a proficiency in Faith 4. This proficiency of Faith must have with it also a proficiency in Discipline day by day ministred to it that it may grow in Faith accordingly Clem. Alex. Lib. 7. illustrates this by a sweet Simile Atque àdeo usque ad nos ipsos alii sub alios sunt collocati quomodo ergo vel minima pars ferri unà monetur spiritu lapidis magnetis extensa per multos annulos ferreos ita etiam qui sunt virtute praediti Domino spiritu attracti cum prima mansione conjunguntur deinceps autem alii usque ad postremam This seventh Book I suppose was written to perfect men and signifieth that some are placed in the first Order others of the second even to our selves of the third Mansion therefore as a small piece of Iron moved by the spirit of a Load-stone drawn through many small Iron Rings so also they that are indued with vertue are drawn by the Lords Spirit when they are joyned in the first Mansion then to the other unto the third and last Mansion A clearer proof of the practice of the Church I suppose cannot be brought by which the Church-Government is to be exercised amongst us and before this be done it is unpossible that the Saints should thrive by any means ministred unto them in that confused way of Antichristian Discipline amongst us at present Dionysius Areop cap. 6. p. prima the whole Chapter shews this These three Ministeries and their several operations are in an imperfect maner according to the imperfect estate of the Church thus touched by Tertul. de Corona Alia est conditio c. ut illorum quos Johannes admittebat ad lavacrum ut centurionum fidelissimorum quos Christus probat quos Petrus Catechizat In this there is a threefold act given to these three which are to be exercised by the Ministery to every Christian Catechizing Baptizing and the approbation of the Evangelist in Baptizing Hence Ignatius Ep. to Philadelp That none should be Baptized without the approbation of the Bishop Non licet sine Episcopo baptizare In the same Epistle he divides the threefold Society thus Sine ipsis ecclesia electa non est the Evangelist Neque Collectio Sanctorum the Pastors Neque Congregatio Sancta the Doctors Society And to this purpose it is that the Apostles call in the Gospel those ministred in the Gospel with them Fellow-laborers co-workers and helpers in the Gospel the one Catechizing the people without the other admitting them into the Church by Baptism another exhorting and exercising their gifts to fit them for that Ministery perfected them Cyp. Ep. 10. lib. 3. A primordio Episcopatus mei statuerim sine consilio vestro id est Compresbyterorum sine consensu plebis meâ privatim sententiâ gerere nihil Dionysius cap. 2. Eccles Hierarch Deinde Sacros omnes gradus sibi cooperentur c. Cypr. lib. 1. Ep. 4. calls Felix and Sabinus Coepiscopi and after Quod factum videmus in Sabini Collegae nostri ordinatione the word Collega is the same with Pauls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and though it is thought that those Coepiscopi a word fit for the whole Church Ministery were Bishops of diverse Societies especially reading in other of his Epistles where he is said to have many Colleagues which may be corruptions inserted by the Papists Thus we see what corruptions are in Ignatius Epistles multitudes of officers and offices inserted that were never thought on and so in Cyprians much more Lib. 3. Ep. 9. he speaks of his own Colleagues and Rogations also It is my opinion That no Book extant is more corrupted then Cyprians of his time for the Church was strangely corrupted he yet in many things retains some Principles of the true Church and wrote more clearly of them then others of his time though I confess after the Two hundred years the face of the Church was so changed as that it was not to be known about which time he lived and it is plain he retained the Apostles term which few after him do and it were strange if he did no more but that Here I suppose it will not be unnecessary to set down an Answer usually made by many to those enquire the Reason Why the Churches are not constituted as they were in the Apostles rnd immediately after they say The Church was then in its Infancy which was the onely grand ground of Apostacy at the first of men from the truth as if the first form in the Gospel were not the best and the patern for future times as Moses patern in the Mount for him Ambrose on Ephes 4. At ubi autem omnia loca circumplexa est ecclesia Conventicula sunt constituta rectores caetera officia in ecclesiis sunt ordinata ut nullus de clero auderet qui ordinatus non esset praesumere officium quod sciret non sibi creditum vel concessum caepit alia ordine providentia gubernari ecclesia More then this need not be said to prove the practice of the then Church and how then of the after Churches and the Churches for some time before upon this Atheistical Antichristian ground to be in the form totally subverted so that the form of Church-Government then and for some time before cannot be brought to prove or warrant any now the true form of the Gospel being destroyed nor was it scarce known which was